On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:10:09AM -1000, Mark Coccimiglio said: > I guess what I need to find out first if there is anyone out there using > Asterisk & BRI in the USA? If so what hardware have they been able to > use. I no longer want to hack around with analog circuits. BRI has the > potential of PRI with only 2 B channels. A great idea for a small > office such as my own. VoIP may be an option, but I would need a ITSP > that would allow calls to transfer from my asterisk box to the remote > phone set. My link to the internet is fast, but its pointless to route > a call into the office just to stream it back out. More work more work > more work.....
I'm in a similar situation. Being on the end of a long loop, POTS sucks - echo / static / crappy calling features. Paying around $2K-3K for BRI solution is a non-starter though. It needs to get down to the $200-400 / port level (more ports = cheaper per port) to be viable. Soho / Very small business (under 12 people) is definately a 1-2 port market which my guess would be the bulk of sales for BRI. It would be awesome to see a Sangoma BRI card. It's hard to say what the market would be since the US telco companies have really tried to kill BRI service. Considering what a full PRI costs, there is also a point where too many BRI ports no longer makes sense, but that number is probably >4-6 BRI's. I was in a situation where I really only wanted 4 BRI's, but had to look at a PRI instead which ended up wasting a lot of money in the long run. POTS was a non-option. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users